†Palaeobethylus politus Brues 1933 (cuckoo wasp)
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Insecta - Hymenoptera - Chrysididae
Full reference: C. T. Brues. 1933. The Parasitic Hymenoptera of the Baltic Amber. Bernstein-Forschungen 3:4-178
Belongs to Palaeobethylus according to K. V. Martynova et al. 2019
See also Brues 1933, Martynova and Perkovsky 2017, Perkovsky and Rasnitsyn 2013, Sorg 1988 and Spahr 1987
Sister taxa: Palaeobethylus brevicollis, Palaeobethylus longicollis
Type specimen: Its type locality is Baltic amber, Konigsberg collection, which is in a Priabonian terrestrial amber in the Russian Federation
Ecology:
Distribution:
• Eocene of the Russian Federation (1 collection), Ukraine (2)
Total: 3 collections each including a single occurrence
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